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Red Hat Expands Free RHEL to Quell CentOS Kerfuffle

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Christine Hall
Feb 2, 2021

In an attempt to make CentOS users happy, Red Hat has expanded its free RHEL offering to 16 servers while allowing production workloads. CentOS users “were unhappy upon learning in December 2020 that Red Hat will end support for the popular free RHEL alternative at the end of this year.”

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